ArticleWellcome open research2021
An ethical analysis of vaccinating children against COVID-19: benefits, risks, and issues of global health equity.
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- A Scalar Approach to Vaccination Ethics.The journal of ethics · 2024Article
- Ethical challenges and dilemmas in the rationing of health commodities and provision of high-risk clinical services during COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: the experiences of frontline health workers.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2023Article
- The Ethical Significance of Post-Vaccination COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2023Article
- COVID-19 vaccination in children as a global dilemma through an ethical lens: A retrospective review.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Altruistic Vaccination: Insights from Two Focus Group Studies.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2022Article
- BNT162b2 Vaccine-Associated Myo/Pericarditis in Adolescents: A Stratified Risk-Benefit Analysis.European journal of clinical investigation · 2022Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 vaccination of children has begun in various high-income countries with regulatory approval and general public support, but largely without careful ethical consideration. This trend is expected to extend to other COVID-19 vaccines and lower ages as clinical trials progress. This paper provides an ethical analysis of COVID-19 vaccination of healthy children. Specifically, we argue that it is currently unclear whether routine COVID-19 vaccination of healthy children is ethically justified in most contexts, given the minimal direct benefit that COVID-19 vaccination provides to children, the potential for rare risks to outweigh these benefits and undermine vaccine confidence, and substantial evidence that COVID-19 vaccination confers adequate protection to risk groups, such as older adults, without the need to vaccinate healthy children. We conclude that child COVID-19 vaccination in wealthy communities before adults in poor communities worldwide is ethically unacceptable and consider how policy deliberations might evolve in light of future developments.
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